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How to get effective damping in Mechanical APDL for a given mode when multiple materials are involved?

Tagged: Effective damping, GET
    • June 6, 2022 at 9:58 am
      FAQFAQ
      Participant

      Effective damping ratio of mode n can be retrieve with *GET:
      *GET, Par, MODE, n, DAMP
      In addition, strain energy per material after the modal analysis:
      /POST1
      SET,1,jj !jj is the desired mode number
      *DO,ii,1,nbmat !nbmat is the maximum number of material
      ESEL,S,MAT,,%ii%
      ETABLE,energy%ii%,SENE
      ALLSEL
      *ENDDO
      SSUM

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